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Exploring Bishkek From Son-Kul, we journeyed 4 hours back to Kyrgyzstan’s capital in a marshrutka ($7/total) for two additional nights. Bishkek, which has a population of 1 million and is rapidly growing, has some architectural and pleasant leafy green similarities to Almaty, though overall not quite as desirable, in our opinion.  One popular explanation for the name “Bishkek” refers to…

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Read more about the article Relaxing our Behinds Two Weeks in Karakol, Kyrgyzstan

From Almaty to Karakol From Almaty, it was time to traverse to our next location in our ‘Stan a Plan, which would be a two-day, 12.5-hour journey to Karakol, pausing overnight in Kyrgyzstan’s capital of Bishkek. Yes, to go east, of course, you gotta go west first. Oh yes, we are indeed moving again… To leave Almaty, we traveled to the…

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